The skill level hasn't dropped that much, LEGO came 4th last season and they could easily finish lower than that this time around. It's just the consistency of the teams that has fallen a lot imo.

Actually we may have a solution, stay tuned! Maybe not though, all up in the air.

Without the venue providing rental PCs or having a sponsorship for them, teams found it very difficult to transport themselves and desktops to the middle of France. Might still get one team there, but it's unlikely.

Needs a Prestige system like CoD, cycle the stars through colours based on the level you're up to.

It would be fantastic (for both the AU scene and TF2 in general) to have Jasmine and some form of iM at i58. Here's hoping.

You can sacrifice your life for the capture of the point, or you can sacrifice on the point. You're working backwards from the slang, which obviously gets used in a loose way.

Again, it's just from sacrificing. You sacrifice your life for stickies being detonated. Nothing to do with sacking a city or stacking.

twitch.tv/tflivetv

South American team? Maybe you've heard something I haven't, but I don't think there are any plans for that. EU/NA/AU/AP is quite enough!

I'm a retard, I mixed up the history of bugs and bird noises, thanks.

I don't understand how people can be this superficial about politics. It's like you really think there's nothing more to deporting people than just telling them to go away.

Deporting all the 11+ million illegal immigrants in the US would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, have an effect on the economy, and require an enormous amount of effort. I'm sure there are further repercussions as well, but I don't know enough about how you would approach that kind of task.

I don't understand how you can look at politics, see that nobody is deporting people en masse, and not reflect on why that might be.

In addition your comment about radical islam is likewise lacking any realism - even if it was a good idea to deny any Muslims entry to the US (which is a huge kneejerk reaction that would have little effect imo but I do accept that radical islam is a real problem) - EVEN IF it was a good idea then how on earth are you gonna enforce that? How do you tell if someone is a Muslim? Are you just gonna deny people from Islamic countries? Would you deport converts to Islam as they're "new muslims". I mean it's totally ridiculous, it's not even close to being a realistic argument and only seems like a good idea to those who apply very little thought to any policy.

A look at the important fixtures this week in ESEA and how the teams stack up.

http://joshjwilkinson.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/esea-invite-season-21-week-6-granary.html

I'd like to see them re-structure the medal system so it doesn't simply reward long matches, but excellent stats.

I've administrated tournaments I've played in. This is no time to start objecting, the corruption runs too deep.

There's nowhere to post these kind of review/opinion articles at the moment, so I've decided to upload some new pieces (and a load of old stuff) to a simple blogspot. Enjoy reading.

This piece is looking at the upcoming fixtures for ETF2L Week 6. I'll do a similar one for ESEA, but only the important fixtures since there are so many per week.

http://joshjwilkinson.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/week-6-fixtures-etf2l-premiership.html